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    Silver Duckwing Bantams

    I have a female and no male, she has been laying eggs that are not fertile. I feel so sorry I can't find her a mate, so I got her a few quail eggs to hatch. Won't she be surprised?
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    Cooling chickens

    It has been in the 90s and 100s here for weeks. So, to keep the chickens cool while in the coop at night, I found an old furnace blower and set it outside the screened window and it keeps them cool. I also used a small tiller and made a depression about 3-4 inches deep in the pen and fill it...
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    predator trapping advice

    Why do you want to kill the poor raccoon just wanting something to eat. It probably has several babies that will be with out a mother to feed them so they can eat the chickens too. My remedy is to buy a lot of chickens and just leave one out a night so the raccoon won't get in the chicken house...
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    To Insulate? Or Not to Insulate? THAT is the question! :-)

    I tried white styrofoam and the chickens kept pecking at it to eat it. I then tried the foil faced foam and they tore the foil face off and tried to eat it. So what else is there to insulate with?
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    Wild Canadian geese

    For the past 8 years, a pair of wild Canadian geese come to our place. I have two ponds and the fartherst one I put out a wood box with straw and every year the hatch 6 to 7 babies. After the first year where the parents took off with the babies and after they were all killed, I started putting...
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    I had a baby chicken that could swim

    Raising both chickens and ducks, sometimes they get their eggs mixed up. One time a chicken laid an egg in a duck's nest and whereas chick eggs hatch sooner I found a baby chick with the duck. Not wanting to fool with the baby chick at that time, I planned to wait until the ducks hatched. When...
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    springtime post your new chick pics

    Some day i will find out what is. it lays eggs and crows.
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    My hen is limping. Help!

    Leave her alone, she will be alright.
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    Do your chickens eat cracked corn in scratch?

    Mine will eat anything i throw in the pen EXCEPT sweet potatoes.
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    5 Roosters must go

    I need someone to take these 5 roosters off my hands before I commit murder 1 red bantam 1 black bantam this pretty good 1 big yellow rooster that is pretty good. 2 BIG red Buckeye rooster really need to go soon 573 655 2260 La Grange, Missouri 63448 edited by staff
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    MY WORST FEAR CAME TRUE!!

    I found that the only things that take care of dog - coon - possums is LEAD.
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    DO NOT check with your insurance agent or company

    Farmers Mutual says that if you have over (8) chickens, you are now a commercial farmer and they add $80.00 a year onto your pyaments. Be aware
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    Will They Desroy The Garden?

    YEP!. They will destroy your garden, your raspberry plants, your asparagus plants, and eat everything they don't tear up. Better than a garden tiller.
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    Pigeon chicken

    I have a chicken that looks like a pigeon. It crows and lays eggs. WHAT is it?
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